whipmasters

Updated: May 25, 2025

We never can look ahead. And they know this well, the gods our masters, pliers of the whip. And mayhap we like them none the worse for it. Indeed, there is a traitor sort among ourselves, that spins facile phrases in the honour of these whipmasters of ours as ``omnes eodem cogimur, and the rest; which is all very pretty and mighty consoling.

Kenneth Grahame - Pagan Papers